Climate Change
New Documentary Released--The American Southwest: Are We Running Dry?
A new documentary, The American Southwest: Are We Running Dry?, has just been released. It will soon air on PBS stations across the county. For more information and/or to obtain a copy, visit the Running Dry website.
Sustainable Water Management Conference & Exposition (Albuquerque, NM)
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February 2, 2010--Climate report paints grim outlook for ski areas (Telluride Watch)
According to a recently published report by the National Wildlife Federation on the effects of global warming, Colorado’s ski industry has reason to worry. Published on Jan.
January 30, 2010--Water study provides tool, but no crystal ball (Pueblo Chieftain)
Colorado may have 900,000 acre-feet of Colorado River water left to develop. Or it may have nothing. While some general trends are apparent, a new study can't pin down the exact conditions 30 or 60 years from now, but it gives planners better tools.
January 29, 2010--Study: Water vapor may help flatten global warming trend (USA Today)
Why the Earth's surface temperature hasn't warmed as expected over the past decade continues to be a puzzle for scientists. One study out earlier this month theorized that the Earth's climate may be less sensitive to greenhouse gases than currently assumed.
January 28, 2010--Harsh winter a sign of disruptive climate change, report says (Washington Post)
This winter's extreme weather -- with heavy snowfall in some places and unusually low temperatures -- is in fact a sign of how climate change disrupts long-standing patterns, according to a new report by the National Wildlife Federation. It comes at a time when, despite a wealth of scientific evidence, the American public is increasingly skeptical that climate change is happening at all.
January 21, 2010--2000s warmest decade on record (Durango Herald)
The 2000-09 decade was the warmest on record, easily surpassing the previous hottest decade - the 1990s - researchers said Tuesday in a report providing fresh evidence the planet may be warming at a potentially disastrous rate.
January 1, 2010--Federal agencies may have to consider climate before they act (Los Angeles Times)
The White House is poised to order all federal agencies to evaluate any major actions they take, such as building highways or logging national forests, to determine how they would contribute to and be affected by climate change, a step long sought by environmentalists.
December 29, 2009--Findings on how plants breathe may save water (New York Times)
New information on how plants breathe may help scientists engineer plants that require less water, according to a report published this month in Nature Cell Biology.
December 29, 2009--A roller-coaster decade (High Country News)
Much of the first decade of the century was marked by drought. If global warming projections are right, it looks like much of the rest of the century will be, too. Devastating wildfires raged across the region. Part of that is thanks to a century of firefighting that left the forests filled with big, old trees ready to burn. Much of it, though, was thanks to year after year of drought.
